Beck’s a grandstander with melodramatic tears. And I’m never entirely convinced this whole conservative shtick of his isn’t some joke that went horribly wrong and he’s just playing out the string (he was a radio comic before, and he did name his production company after Welles’ company that pulled the biggest accidental hoax in history). Plus he backed Romney. I didn’t say Hannity knows #$%^ about $#%^, I just said I don’t understand why conservatives trust Beck.
I never cared much for his "dramatics". I always assumed he was doing it for theater, to entertain, to keep folks with short attention span syndrome interested long enough to learn something. To that effect, I'm sure it worked.